West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-07-28
South aud West.

TnE sum OF 500, zoo has already been sub
scribed for next years Cincinnati Centennial
Exposition.
TuE Tcrre Haute Car Works. with the ex
Seption OF the foundry, have been burned
Loss $1,000
Nelson, Neb., for numbering "a neighbor and
causing the death OF the lattors wife by the
shock.
vmULENr type Of fux having some
symptoms OF cholera, Is epidemic around
Eversonville, Ind a large number of chill
dren are down with IL, and at least twenty
deaths have occurred.
THE Milwaukee Common Council has
passed a resolution inviting President Cleye-
land To visit that city.
X. NJ. II. HUNTER, ex Speaker OF Congress.
ex-Unitod States Senator and ox-Confeder-
ate Secretary of state died few dnys since
ht ms home in Essex county, Va He was
born i'm 1909, aud since the war had served as
Governor OF Virginia
O-EY CHEETY, ON ciey,i-y,ar old colored
C.u Of Rarnwall, s. C., has been convicted
of the murder of the whito infant she was
uislng and has been sentenced to be hanged
in September
THE ST. Anthony elevator, an immense
triple building near st Paul, MINI has been
destroyed by fire 10 contained 100 OJU
bushels OF wheat Tbs loss on building aud
machinery alone Is S25OO1O
CRoPs In Missouri aud Kansas arc suffer
Ing greatly from drought
A FIERCE storm has swept over n large SOC.
ton OF West Virginia, doing great damage 10
buildings and crops At kockport "a circus
tent was blown away and "A dozen spectators
were injured.
THREE or four persons were shot. one
fatally, during sham battle between cow
boys and Indians at "A circus exhibition in
Ciintoi.' Iowa. IL Is supposed a loaded revol-
yer was used accidentally by one of the non
formers
GANBRTNUs ASSEMBLY, Knights Of labor.
l,OOO strong, Of Milwaukee has Withdrawn
from the Order because Of GranI Master
workman Fowderly's sentiments On the tenn
perance question.
IHE Ohio Democrats, al their state Con
yentlon in Cleveland, nominated General
Thomas r. Powell for Governor on tho
second ballot over Congressman Camp
bell and Foran. The ticket was com
plctcd by the nomination OF cnnd
dates for Lieutenant Governor and other
Offices. The platform proclaimed " It's hearty
ana unqualified endorsement Of the honest
patriotic and economical Administration OF
President Cleveland demanded n Judi
cious reduction of the present burden
some tariff; endorsed Mr.. Clcveand's views
regarding the public domain: favored
protection TO honest labor home rule in tho
management and control Of municipal nf
fairs, aud an amendment 10 the Constitution
proyidiug for the license OF the liauor trn0l.
Nothing was said in the platform about The
Gil Scr yice laws.
POWDER HOUSE at Strcaton. nm was
struck by lightning, and between eight and
ten thousand pounds Of powder exploded.
leaving ln place Of the building a hole sFtv
lFt lon" forty feet wide and twenty feet
deep One person was killed. six badly fu-
Jured and forty-tiyo buildings were wrecked
FIRE in St Paul MINI DESTROYED n
nn"hs" OF large business houses Tho dam
age is heavy.
FRANCIS VI. KELLAH, Of Shelbyville. Ill.
kilcd his wife because she ore 1,it, tIra.
children who all had twelve fingers AMI
Twelve toes the same as their mother KEEL
a"s ~ '"hhors ~ ed TO lynch him Lcfore ho
was taken TO Jail